The Falls of Niagara

Artist: Edward Hicks
Artwork: The Falls of Niagara
Description: This painting is an example of Hicks’s work in the folk art tradition. It depicts Niagara Falls, with a deer, a squirrel, and other animals in the foreground. The painting is inscribed with a poem by Hicks that begins: “Above, below, where’er the astonished eye/Turns to behold, new opening wonders lie.”
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